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Allow the addition of new components during the upgrade process.

At present, upgrading Cognos Analytics reads the currently installed components from the cmplst.txt file, and only upgrades those components. It is not possible to add any additional or new components (for example, Image Service) during an upgrade...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Report Insync latency on table level

As of today, Insync latency is reported via "Q8STCRL: The current replication latency for this DB2 system". This provides an overall latency but does not help which table is the most contributer to the latency. If customers monitor a high latency ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PAW Image local folder

When designig a PAW Book, we can insert object types "Image": to show it, we have to put an URL which addresses the Image. To do this, we need to setup a new Web Server or use an existing one (if we have...) and place all you images onto this web ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add sid to onstat -g tpf output

When using onstat -g tpf it would be better if sid was displayed to make this easier to tie back to a session. E.g. when looking for reverse scans on the instance.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Have another table sysesprof with reads/writes per session and bufferpool

Have another table sysesprof with reads/writes per sessioin and bufferpool https://community.ibm.com/community/user/datamanagement/discussion/error-25582-whats-a-reason-of?ReturnUrl=%2fcommunity%2fuser%2fdatamanagement%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-ho...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Improve Space Search Performance for Nearly Full PBR

Currently, when there are many concurrent inserts on a PBR which is nearly full, CPU and elapsed time for inserts increases by many orders of magnitude, to the point where it can completely monopolize the CPU on an LPAR. In past discussions, I was...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Chose color for different columns

We want functionality where we can choose color depending on some criteria’s. Example We have a column which contains information if the household is a partner, single men, or single women. This data will be shown in a pie chart were the size depe...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Adding Trusted or Endorsement badge to Data Modules

We would like to have the ability for Central IT Teams to share 'Trusted or Endorsed' Data Modules (maybe add a badge?) for our end-users to either consume the data module as stand-alone data module or for using it with their custom Data Module. W...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Improved admin of user rights

The administration of user rights, with a great number of users, is very time consuming. With many users, having more or less the same company rights but with minor differences you need to set up and maintain one company security group per user. I...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration